Category Archives: VoIP Business
Cheapest VoIP Provider?
So who is the cheapest VoIP phone provider out there? Well assuming we are looking at residential VoIP plans and not calling card plans, softphones/PC phones or business VoIP solutions then Lingo wins that battle with their basic plan costing … Continue reading
Vonage – Bunkruptcy?
Following on from the earlier blog on the problems that Vonage is having with the Verizon patent dispute, it appears that the situation may get much worse before it gets better. Since we posted, the Vonage CEO has stepped down … Continue reading
VoiceCon Keynotes
The two biggest, and most anticipated, keynotes of VoiceCon happened today, Cisco and Microsoft, and they both met the expectations. First Charles Giancarlo (Cisco’s Senior VP and Chief Development Office) took the stage. Somewhat of a departure for Cisco, Charles … Continue reading
Earthquake at VoiceCon 2007
Here at VoiceCon 2007, the keynotes have been the typical executives presenting the merits of their vision, while making subtle jabs at their competitors. However one refreshing and extremely earth shattering keynote was from Johan Krebbers (Group IT Architect of … Continue reading
Voice over Wireless LAN (VoWLAN) – Wireless VoIP
Voice over Wireless LAN, or VoWLAN as it is referred to, has been getting a lot of publicity recently. What is VoWLAN? In simplistic terms this is VoIP but over WiFi or Wireless IP. Many households have WiFi these days … Continue reading
Free 411 directory assistance
The big buzz today at the announcement of free directory assistance calls. The cost for this service is typically 75Â cents to a $1.50, however dial this number 1-800-FREE411 and they are free – well almost. When you phone you are … Continue reading
Microsoft and Nortel provide update to the partnership
Today in New York Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer and Nortel’s Mike Zafirovski provided an update of the of their partnership, originally announced in July. The full Webcast and transcript is available at http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/exec/steve/2007/01-17Nortel.mspx, but the key announcements are as follows: Integration … Continue reading
Intermittent Audio during phone call?
A lot of the negative reviews we get all have one thing in common, actually it’s 2;Â bad customer service seems to be a common complaint but another is choppy or intermittent audio during a phone call. Over the past week … Continue reading
Q&A: Microsoft Delivers Voice Technologies in Unified Communications Platform
Following on from the recent Microsoft announcement of the Office Communications Server public Beta, is a Microsoft Press Pass Q&A article with Anoop Gupta – Vice President for Microsoft’s Unified Communications Group. In this article, more information is available on the vision … Continue reading
T1 or DS3 – When should you switch?
The simple answer is - if you are approaching 8 T1 lines then you should look into a DS3 connection. 8 T1′s give you 12.352Mbits of bandwidth a DS3 gives you 44.736Mbits of bandwidth(equivalent of 28 T1 lines), the cost however of … Continue reading
Voice T1 or Data T1
As we’ve stated many times before a T1 line physically looks the same in terms of bandwidth, frame rate, clock rate, etc, regardless of what type of information it ultimately transports. So this being the case can’t you just get a T1 … Continue reading
PRI T1 (Primary Rate Interface)
No matter what type of T1 line you ask for its bandwidth, physical medium, etc we have disucssed before will be the same. However what type of data or how the T1 is used  maybe different. Primary Rate Interface or PRI T1 as it is … Continue reading
Microsoft announces Beta of Enterprise VoIP Software
Microsoft recently announced the public beta of Office Communications Server 2007. This server software is Microsoft’s first entry into the Enterprise VoIP market space, and is a reasonable initial version. Adding voice and conferencing to the successful Instant Messaging and … Continue reading
Types of T1 lines
Over the past few weeks we have gone into some depth as to what T1 lines are in terms of voice T1, sampling rates, frame width, data T1 lines, IP packets, voice compression, packet delay, etc. But what do you … Continue reading
Speech delay and IP packet frequency
The ITU define the acceptable delay for speech in G.114. The aim in any network is to minimize this delay, however this can be problematic as the designers of networks have no idea who or where you will be calling. You … Continue reading